MassArt evacuated after bomb threat at MCPHS

A bomb threat at MCPHS University led to an evacuation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design Wednesday.

According to police, MCPHS recieved a bomb threat via email at 11:13 a.m. Bomb squads cleared the building shortly thereafter and found there were not threats inside the building, said spokeswoman Myeshia Henderson.

The official Twitter account for MassArt tweeted at 11:35 that a suspicious package had been found at MCPHS, but Henderson said the school must have had the wrong information.

"There is a suspicious device found at MCPHS please evacuate Kennedy Building at this time. Palace road is shut down," MassArt tweeted.

Livestreaming footage on Fox 25's website showed police and dogs surveying the area before students filed back into the building.

The nearby Boston Latin School was briefly under a "safe mode" lockdown "as a precaution from about 11:35 am until 11:50 am," BPS spokesman Daniel O'Brien said in an email. No other schools took such precautions, he said.

The reaction comes one day after a terror attack in Brussels put cities around the world on high alert.